12 Times Game of Thrones Sneakily Foreshadowed the Future

Lost the use of your legs, but still want to look cool in front of your new friends? A good old-fashioned scary story should do the trick. Take it from Bran Stark. In the season three finale, Bran tells Jojen and Meera Reed the legend of the Rat Cook. A cook who worked in the Nightfort castle on the Wall once killed the son of a king who was visiting. The cook then baked the son into a pie and served it to the king. As a result, the cook was cursed by the gods and turned into a rat as punishment for killing someone who was a guest. Yikes.

Turns out the timing of Bran's story is no accident. He tells it the episode after the Red Wedding, when Walder Frey . . . well, you know what he did to the guests in his home.

Three seasons later, Bran's sister Arya takes revenge on Walder Frey in an eerily similar method to the Rat Cook's crime. She kills Walder Frey's sons, bakes them into a pie, and serves it to Frey. If Bran knew this creepy story by heart, it's likely Arya knew it too.